Java Phone Games: X-Files, Robobouncer
We haven't looked at any Java Download games before and
over the coming months we'll be testing a few to see what
they're like.
This is the first adventure game I've checked out for a phone. The start
stop nature of such a game would appear to be quite suited to some
waiting environments. Stopping playing causes no real problem here. If
you're geeky enough to like these games, there's even less of a problem.
This is in Java with a window onto the part of the world you're in and a
row of actions underneath. Below that is where conversations and reactions
to silly moves go. It's quite smartly done. On some platforms
some people have created interfaces that are almost totally impenetrable
-- how do these get past the testers? Do they have testers? Anyway,
simplifying for the phone platform and trying to make the thing idiot
proof has had good effect. In this game you start out in FBI headquarters
in DC and need to get out to LA to investigate the grizzly murder of a
colleague. Scully is around somewhere as well. Get the picture?
In this one you are a robot that's a bouncer. Your job
is to stop other robots getting into the dance club you
stand in front of. No dress code here, or door bitch -- noone's
allowed in! So, you just bop everyone. It's sort of bouncer
heaven I guess. Other than bouncers, or people coming home from
bars, this one is probably more suited to kids as it is, dare
I say, fairly mindless.
Mstation Games Review
Mon, 31 Oct 2005
X-Files: The Deserter
many phones, Elkware, Infospace
MTV Robobouncer
many phones, Infospace
